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Trends that need to go

Crop tops

Amruta KanekarAug 7, 20263 min read
Crop tops

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The trend of crop tops neatly goes with the topic "how appropriate dressing can be". For those fortunate ones do not know what crop top is - it is a type of top wear that is generally shorter than the normal length, they may end at the midriff or above the midriff. In short the crop top is a type of clothing that is going to expose the area around the stomach.

Again crop top is one of the trends that began in 2000s and disappeared quickly. The reason was very simple. Most people did not like their stomach being on display. It was specifically very uncomfortable to sit while wearing the crop tops because the rolls of the stomach would be visible irrespective of whether a person had flat stomach. Crop tops was a bad fashion choice in 2000s and even it is today.

Let us dive into this topic and understand why crop tops are not appropriate:
1. Crop tops expose the stomach area and hence they are not considered appropriate for formal settings such as workplace, meetings, and formal events. This is in alignment with the dress code rules that are applied at prestigious Institute and colleges as well.
2. Crop tops are not considered appropriate in most of the settings hence if someone wish you to wear crop tops they would also think about a layering option such as jackets or blazers. Wearing layered pieces in hot climate is going to be very uncomfortable.
3. With wearing crop tops there will always be the restrictions towards movements. The movements towards various activities such as exercise, doing the household work, or doing labour is going to be troublesome because there will always be a possibility of wardrobe malfunction.
4. The crop tops keep riding up hence they require constant adjustment. It looks very in appropriate to adjust clothing in public places.
5. Crop tops are also going to be uncomfortable and chilling in the cold climates making them in appropriate for winter season.

This is not the comprehensive list of reasons. There are many more reasons to avoid wearing crop tops. Let alone for others but I would talk about myself. Call me prude or any other term however I always find it comfortable to go in public where I am appropriately dressed. I never find it appropriate to dress up in crop tops and go in public because I do not wish to expose my stomach area to the world.

Yet there is one challenge that I face nowadays. The crop tops have taken over the entire fashion industry and hence whenever I go shopping I do not find any tops that are of appropriate length. All the tops that are currently in the market are ending at the midrif or way about the midriff. This leaves me to only one option - buying shirts and t-shirts from men's section.

Unfortunately we are in a fashion world right now where for less fabric we are paying unnecessarily high amount. A fashion revolution is much needed. I have decided myself that no matter what I am not going to buy crop tops. If you hate crop tops as much as I do, then I would suggest you do the same as well. One or the other day the fashion industry would have to listen to the customers like us.

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Nandhini Venkatesh RajaAug 8, 2026

I can totally understand that...but sometimes the drop top would be the best outfit according to the place we go...and then again I have not used the crop top that short present in the social media

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